Both Feet on the Ground | Grounding Meditation to Come Back Into Your Body

Wendy Jones opens this guided meditation with a personal story that grounds the practice in lived experience. In 2022, after surgery to reconstruct her right ankle, she wrote a blog post called "Foundations for Peace" in which she realized something striking: "I didn't realize I had left my body." For about ten years, a degenerative ankle and an earlier surgery that had shifted her heel meant she could not get both feet squarely on the ground. Her left side compensated for her right. Her balance was off, and she felt oddly exposed to anything coming at her from that weaker side. Underneath that physical imbalance, she came to see something bigger: like many highly sensitive people, she had quietly disconnected from her body a long time ago, because feeling everything so strongly was a lot to hold.

This meditation, called "Both Feet on the Ground," is designed to reverse that disconnection. The central mechanism is simple but powerful: our feet are our foundation. They send a steady stream of signals telling us where we are in space, which is one of the ways the body knows it is safe. By returning attention to the feet, we come home to the body one layer at a time.

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